We offer the following free lined paper printables below. Each free lined paper printable is available in various sizes, colors, and designs.
Typeable paper
Add a Border and Change Colors
Printable Lined Paper
Typeable Lined Paper PDF
Create Personalized Lined Stationery
We offer a selection of free printable lined paper to meet any need in either US letter (8.5”x11”) or A4 size. You can either select any lined paper to print as is or you can change the number of lines or the color of the lines. Print the paper on standard white paper or on any other colored paper.
You can also add text and/or a photo to the lined paper background.
We also offer a free printable paper ruler.
There are three main types of blank lined paper.
Wide ruled paper has wide spaces (8.7mm or more) between the horizontal lines. This is the most common paper used in elementary schools. It is ideal to make printable lined paper for kids in kindergarten, first grade, second and third grade. Younger kids usually have bigger handwriting, so they need wider spaces between the lines. This is also used to make lined writing paper when you make your own DIY stationery paper.
There are usually 27 lines on wide-ruled paper. You can open this paper in Microsoft Word, as a typeable PDF file or an image.
With Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
No Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
With Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
No Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
With Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
If you would like more options then see our paper maker app. You can change the color of the lines, add a border, add as many lines as you want and you can add images and photos.
We offer free printable college ruled paper in any color or size.
College ruled paper has slightly narrower gaps (7.1 mm) than wide-ruled paper. This paper is usually used by older students since their handwriting is smaller than that of younger kids. The vertical margin is about 1.25” or 32 mm from the left-hand edge of the page.
This free lined paper is perfect for college use, studying, taking notes, or writing down ideas. Select the lined paper with or without a margin and select the color of the lines. You are free to punch holes according to your binder or leave the page without holes if you are not going to insert the pages into a binder. The paper is available in three colors, however, if you use our paper maker app, you can select any color.
Blue lines – blue lines with a red margin. This red and blue lined handwriting paper printable is the most popular version.
Black lined paper – with black horizontal lines and a red margin.
Gray lines with a red margin.
Colored lined paper – there are two ways to make colored paper. You can print the line template on colored paper or you can use our colored version which prints any colored background on white paper. You can choose any color for the background.
How many lines are on college-ruled paper? There are usually 33 lines on college-ruled lined paper.
With Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
No Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
With Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
No Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
With Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
No Margin: Word | Fillable PDF | Image
If you would like more options then see our paper maker app. You can change the color of the lines, add as many lines as you want, add a frame, images, and photos.
Narrow ruled sheets have very narrow gaps between the lines (.25 inches or 6.35 mm). Only use this to make printable writing paper if you have small handwriting.
College ruled is the most common paper with wider gaps between the lines than narrow-ruled but narrower than wide-ruled.
This choice between them depends on the size of your handwriting and however many lines you want on a page. The narrow-ruled will have more lines and the wide-ruled will have fewer lines. Narrow-ruled is only suitable for small handwriting whereas wide-ruled is suitable for big handwriting.
We offer free printable paper for planners. Not sure what size you need? See planner sizes.
Happy Planner – Big Size (use any of the templates on this page as they are all compatible)
Classic Happy Planner – Black | Blue | Gray
We also offer free printable dot grid paper for planners.
